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Sanitation and Externalities: Evidence from Early Childhood Health in Rural India [PDF]
, 2014 This paper estimates two sources of benefits, one direct and the other external, related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a direct benefit a household receives when moving from open to fixed-point defecation or from ...
Bertha O +3 more
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High case fatality cholera outbreak in Western Kenya, August 2010
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2013 INTRODUCTION: Cholera is a disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholera and has been an important public health problem since its first pandemic in 1817. Kenya has had numerous outbreaks of cholera ever since it was first detected there during 1971. In
Dickens Onyango +3 more
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NSan: A Floating-Point Numerical Sanitizer [PDF]
, 2021 Sanitizers are a relatively recent trend in software engineering. They aim at automatically finding bugs in programs, and they are now commonly available to programmers as part of compiler toolchains. For example, the LLVM project includes out-of-the-box sanitizers to detect thread safety (tsan), memory (asan,msan,lsan), or undefined behaviour (ubsan ...
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A Customized Text Sanitization Mechanism with Differential Privacy [PDF]
https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.355/, 2022 As privacy issues are receiving increasing attention within the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community, numerous methods have been proposed to sanitize texts subject to differential privacy. However, the state-of-the-art text sanitization mechanisms based on metric local differential privacy (MLDP) do not apply to non-metric semantic similarity ...
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Ending open defecation in rural Tanzania: which factors facilitate latrine adoption? [PDF]
, 2014 Diarrheal diseases account for 7% of deaths in children under five years of age in Tanzania. Improving sanitation is an essential step towards reducing these deaths.
Graham, Jay, Sara, Stephen
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Transplacental transmission: A rare case of Ebola virus transmission
Infectious Disease Reports, 2018 During the mid-transmission period of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Sierra Leone, a 19-year-old pregnant woman, who was a petty trader in a health facility in Freetown, noticing no fetal movement for the past 3 days, reported to a health ...
Lawrence Okoror +4 more
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Equity analysis of intermittent water supply systems by means of EPA-SWMM
Water Supply, 2023 Intermittent water supply (IWS) is a frequent operation approach in developing countries. A number of factors contribute to IWS, such as leakage and water shortage, leading to inequitable water distribution. A way to reduce the inequity in IWS systems is
Paulo A. S. B. Ceita +4 more
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Monitoring sanitation and hygiene in the 2030 agenda for sustainable development: A review through the lens of human rights [PDF]
, 2016 International monitoring of drinking water and sanitation has been jointly carried out by WHO and UNICEF through their Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP). With the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era in 2015, the JMP has proposed a post-2015
Flores Baquero, Óscar +3 more
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